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Page 74 of 1301929 · PDF PAGE 218
…ord Antony by chance one evening on the Boulevard des Italiens, dined him, and on finding that all amusements, even that of watching the world from the terrace of a cafe, were to end by order of the Military Governor of Paris, at eight o'clock, suggested that they should spend the evening smoking opium "chez Zizi," a delightful girl who lived with a brilliant young English journalist [307] on the Boulevard M Marcel. At midnight, serenely confident that God was in his heaven, as asserted by the late Robert Browning, they decided to finish the ni…
1996 · PDF PAGE 6
…e under the pen-name Louis Marlow, and like Crowley, was a member of the small English expatriate community in New York during the First World War. Wilkinson was an English man of letters in the best sense; he not only wrote, and wrote well, but lived a literary life 7
1944 · PDF PAGE 111
Spirit represent a later accretion. Neither is to be found in the original twenty4wo Paths of the Sepher Yetzirah. The world of Assiah, the material world, does not appear except as a pendant to the Tree of Life. In the same way, the element of Spirit is attributed to the letter Shin, as an additional ornament, somewhat in the same way as Kether is said to be symbolized by the topmost point of the Yod of Tetragrammaton. It is constantly necessary to distinguish between the symbols of philosophical theory and those more elaborate symbols based u…
1907 · PDF PAGE 151
…e future , a dream of the day , When athwart the dim glades Of the forest a ray Ofsunlight shall flash and the dew die away! Rose of the World , Rose of the Uttermost Abode of Glory , Rose of the High Host Of Heaven , mystic , rapturous Rose ! The extreme passion glows Deep in this breast ; thou knowest (and love knows ). ? Thus we end our chapter which we have called “ The Mother .” And as Diana , Luna , and Hecate are one , so Rosa Mundi , Rosa Coeli , Rosa Inferni, unite Triformis in one great trinity in unity . And as the Moon kisses the Se…
1911 · PDF PAGE 155
…uld not trust himself to speak: the Love that was the whole being of the Brother melted the snow of his soul. He loved. Not Ida, not the world, not anything. It was pure love, love without object, love as love is in itself. He did not love; he was Love. But he strode straight back to Ida Pendragon. Before she left her bed, they were married. A week later they drove through the cool swift air to the South; and there, among the vines, they learnt how—once in a century—the phoenix Passion may rise from the fire of Vice, and how in the beak of the p…
1911 · PDF PAGE 155
…uld not trust himself to speak: the Love that was the whole being of the Brother melted the snow of his soul. He loved. Not Ida, not the world, not anything. It was pure love, love without object, love as love is in itself. He did not love; he was Love. But he strode straight back to Ida Pendragon. Before she left her bed, they were married. A week later they drove through the cool swift air to the South; and there, among the vines, they learnt how—once in a century—the phoenix Passion may rise from the fire of Vice, and how in the beak of the p…
1907 · PDF PAGE 110
…“ None but the dead can know the worth of love ! ” None but the dead , dead to all else . To love is to die and be born again in another world , to slough the skin of the terrene and be robed in all the supernal glory of the celestial . Love changes as Death , it effaces the past , it brightens the future , beautifies as the hand of some mystic artist , all misery , all sorrow , all woe , overwhelming , illimitable . Now we see the horrid form of his lower self , which he once strove to cast off , bending over him ; the Venus of his body rises …
1909 · PDF PAGE 110
8.20. 8.35. 9.0. 9-35- THE EQUINOX The thought too, is wanderingall over the world. Since the last entry, very likely, the beast has not thought even once of Adonai. The Reading of the Ritual has done much service, though things are still far from calm. Yet the mighty flood of the Chittam is again rolling its tremendous tide toward the sea—the Sea of annihilation. Amen. Returning home, with his eyes fixed on the supreme glory of the Moon, in his heart and brain invoking Adonai, he hath now entered into his little chamber, and will prepare all thi…
1909 · PDF PAGE 82
…conditions, but from the practice itself, so that they cannot be shut off, but must needs be faced and conquered directly. In the mystic world, we come to those strange meta- physical ecstasies which (I am convinced) lie behind many philosophical dogmas. St. Athanasius had probably experienced something of this type when he penned his insane creed. So the Hindus with their attempts to affirm Parabrahma by denying him all qualities, their dogma of the “pairs of opposites,” their assertion of Sat-Chit-Ananda as transcending these pairs ; so too p…
1909 · PDF PAGE 82
…conditions, but from the practice itself, so that they cannot be shut off, but must needs be faced and conquered directly. In the mystic world, we come to those strange meta- physical ecstasies which (I am convinced) lie behind many philosophical dogmas. St. Athanasius had probably experienced something of this type when he penned his insane creed. So the Hindus with their attempts to affirm Parabrahma by denying him all qualities, their dogma of the “pairs of opposites,” their assertion of Sat-Chit-Ananda as transcending these pairs ; so too p…
1919 · PDF PAGE 355
…lted into general rules. To ‘break training’ is not a sin for any one who is not in training. Incidentally, it takes all sorts to make a world. Imagine the stupidity of a universe full of Arhans! All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. 68. The rose must re-become the bud, born of its parent stem, before the parasite has eaten through its heart and drunk its life sap. The English is here ambiguous and obscure, but the meaning is that it is important to achieve the Great Work while you have youth and energy. 69. The golden tree puts forth its…
1930 · PDF PAGE 9
…ages perform propitiatory rites, there and there only Christianity takes hold. But under the great systems of the civilised parts of the world, there is no trace of any such perversion in religious feeling. It is only the bloodthirsty and futile Jehovah who has achieved such monstrous births. Such upas-trees can only grow in the poisonous mire of fear and shame where thought has putrefied to Christianity. There is thus no antecedent improbability that Gilles de Rais (or any other person of that place and period) was addicted to black magical pr…
1929 · PDF PAGE 437
…her. I had advised him to evoke the forces of Fire and Air on return to South Africa, they being naturally plentiful in that part of the world. He began with the fiery part of Fire, which includes lightning. When he began his ceremony there was no indication of electrical disturbance; but in a few minutes a storm gathered and his temple was struck. Another Brother similarly evoking the forces of Water, the cistern of his house burst during the ceremony and flooded it. Similar incidents constantly occur to those Magicians whose forces tend to ma…
1906 · PDF PAGE 182
…, All I held dear, and sit alone Still meditating, on my throne Of Kusha-grass,* and count my beads, Murmur my mantra,” till recedes The world of sense and thought—I sink 475 480 485 490 495 600 505 610
1909 · PDF PAGE 83
…t to dinner. Iwas half-asleep some of the time. Dinner—Hers d’GEuvre—Tripes a la Mode de Caen— Filet de Porc—Glace—g Graves. Oh, how the world Y 81
1909 · PDF PAGE 66
…reason. (We discard his preliminary sophisms.) I have no use for hashish save as a preliminary demon- stration that there exists another world attainable—somehow. Possibly if pharmacists were to concentrate their efforts upon 56
1909 · PDF PAGE 66
…reason. (We discard his preliminary sophisms.) I have no use for hashish save as a preliminary demon- stration that there exists another world attainable—somehow. Possibly if pharmacists were to concentrate their efforts upon 56
1909 · PDF PAGE 13
…itself? Having destroyed logic by logic—if Satan cast out Satan, how shall his kingdom stand? Let us stand on the Mount, Saviours of the World that we are, and answer “Get thee behind me, Satan!” though refraining from quoting texts or giving reasons. Oho! says somebody; is Aleister Crowley here ?—Samson blinded and bound, grinding corn for the Philistines! Not at all, dear boy! We shall put all the questions that we can put—but we may find a tower built upon a rock, against which the winds beat in vain. Not what Christians call faith, be sure!…
1913 · PDF PAGE 9
…Stone of the Wise, of the Elixir of Immortality, and of the Universal Medicine. Moreover, it possesses a Secret capable of realizing the world-old dream of the Brotherhood of Man. It also possesses in every important centre of popula- tion a hidden Retreat (Collegium ad Spiritum Sanctum) where members may conceal themselves in order to pursue the Great Work without hindrance. These houses are secret fortresses of Truth, Light, Power, and Love, and their position is only disclosed under an oath of secrecy to those entitled to make use of them. ‘…
1913 · PDF PAGE 357
…ciences and of the fine arts; and the eternal Word of the Gospel, living and incarnate in a visible authority, is still the light of the world. 59